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This month my Mom and Dad celebrated 66 years of marriage. That’s an amazing feat in today’s world. To honor them, I’ve decided to step aside from my Writers Workshop series momentarily and post the sonnet I wrote sixteen years ago for their 50th anniversary celebration. Anniversary Sonnet The years …

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 I love middle school students, particularly 8th graders. They routinely dazzle their teachers with energetic creativity. But 8th grade girls can also be the worst at writing …

“Listen carefully to what I say; let my words ring in your ears.” Job 13:17 I couldn’t wait to hear from my middle son after his first day in boarding school. We had installed him in his dorm at Taejon Christian International School over the weekend, and I was anxious …

“…they think they will be heard because of their many words.” Matthew 6:7 My husband claims that his high school English teacher was an older woman who valued length over substance in written assignments. The more adjectives, the better the grade. She praised long, rambling sentences and equated high word count …

Recently I ran across one of my old high school yearbooks (the key word here being old). I flipped through the pages, recalling faces and names I’d forgotten long ago. As I read the various greetings penned inside the covers, I ran across a note from Richard: “Remember the straws!” …